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34-02 Status Genre Obligatory Scenes

Story Grid

1 Inciting Incident Challenges the Protagonoist's Status Quo

2 Protagonist Leaves Home to Seek Fortune

3 Forced to Adapt to a New Environment, Protagpnist Tries to Rely on Old Habits, Humiliating Themselves

4 Protagonist Learns what Antagonist's Object of Desire Is, and Sets Out to Achieve It Themselves

5 Protagonist's Initial Strategy to Out-Maneuver the Antagonist Fails

6 During an All-is-Lost Moment, Protagonist Learns They Must Change Their Definition of Success or Risk Betraying Their Principles

7 Core Event: Protagonist Chooses Either to Do what's Necessary to Achieve Higher Status or Reject the World They Strived to Join

8 Protagonist Saves or Looses Themselves Based on Their Core Event Choice

 

Subgenre 

1 Pathetic - Starts Low, Ends Low

2 Tragic - Starts High, Ends Low

3 Sentimental - Starts Low, Ends High

4 Admiration - Starts High, Ends High

 

Conventions

1 Strong Mentor Figure

2 Large Social Problems as a Sub-Text

3 Herald or Threshold Guardian

4 Clear Point of No Return for Protagonist

5 Ironic or Bittersweet Ending

 

Rev Dr E. William (Liam) Petter    -   e-mail: liam@ewpetter.net    -    Address: 2831 El Dorado Pkwy, Ste 103-443, Frisco, Tx 75033

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